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Before it was legal : a black-white marriage (1945-1987)
- Title
- Before it was legal : a black-white marriage (1945-1987) / Nancy Werking Poling.
- Author
- Poling, Nancy Werking, 1941-
- Publication
- Black Mountain, NC : Screech Owl Press, [2017]
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Details
- Description
- vii, 194 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Based on a true story about Nancy Werking Poling's aunt's sister. ""Would you marry a Negro?" the group of young white social workers asked each other over dinner. "If he's the kind of man I'm attracted to," Anna Harley answered. She was, in fact, seeing Daniel Winters, a black man, regularly. Their forty-two-year marriage would span key historical periods of the 20th century and eventually take the couple to Mexico City. There, for the first fime, Daniel could work in the profession he'd been educated for. Freed from U.S. racism, he felt "as Mexican as chile verde." Meanwhile, Anna, a reserved blond woman who struggled with speaking Spanish, experienced no similar sense of liberation. Before It Was Legal is not a happily-ever-after story, but an honest portrayal of the love and hurt that any two people, not just a biracial couple may encounter in an intimate relationship. It is the story of an independent white woman, a talented black man, and the times in which these two remarkable people lived"--
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Intermarriage > United States
- Married people > Mexico > Mexico City > Biography
- Married people > Indiana > Biography
- Marriage > United States
- Marriage > Mexico > Mexico City
- African Americans > Indiana
- African Americans > Mexico > Mexico City
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > Indiana > 20th century
- Race discrimination > Indiana > History > 20th century
- Interracial marriage > Indiana
- Interracial marriage > Mexico > Mexico City
- Race relations
- Race discrimination
- Interracial marriage
- African Americans > Civil rights
- African Americans
- Intermarriage
- Marriage
- Married people
- Marital status
- Living arrangements
- Indiana > Race relations > History > 20th century
- Indiana > History > 20th century
- Mexico City (Mexico) > History > 20th century
- Mexico > Mexico City
- Indiana
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-241
- ISBN
- 9780998565101
- 0998565105
- 9780998656101 (canceled/invalid)
- OCLC
- 980875931
- Author
- Poling, Nancy Werking, 1941- author.
- Title
- Before it was legal : a black-white marriage (1945-1987) / Nancy Werking Poling.
- Publisher
- Black Mountain, NC : Screech Owl Press, [2017]
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-241